Summer Sports - Cricket
trimming of five tall popular trees on one side of our ground. These trees need to be halved in height, as they are causing a severe lack of sunlight which is helping to produce some serious moss. As we know, grass doesn’t grow in the shade but moss does. I’ve obtained a good competitive quote for this. This part of the outfield needs some money spent on it in the form of scarifying and reseeding, but there is no point doing that until we do something about the trees which, of course, also make the leaves situation much worse in autumn and winter. Also heavy on my wish list is some machinery which I do without, but is really quite important. One is a sarrel roller. I had a spiker reel on my old Autorake but the reel has fallen apart. Secondly, a pedestrian sprayer, I would like to use more liquid fertilisers. So that’s probably over a grand for the two. I’ll probably have to keep wishing. In the long term, I could do with a sit
on rotary with collector. Collecting leaves up over two hectares with a 15 inch Hayter does get a tad tiresome - a bit like painting the Forth Bridge with a toothbrush - and cutting the outfield in the winter with a triple is virtually impossible, because of the dampness and worm casts. I’m sure other clubs get by with less, and some more, but that’s about where I’m at for what I consider basic costs to produce surfaces that meet the demands of an ECB premier league.
This brings me on to the thorny issue of funding.
Our first team currently play in division one in the ECB Surrey Championship, just below the Premier Division. Clubs in the Premier Division get, I believe, £1,000 from the ECB. In Division One, we are subjected to the same scrutiny and requirements that are put on the Premier Division by the ECB, but we receive no such aforementioned financial help. It’s
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just a thought that higher demands are placed on facilities if you play in the top two divisions, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable that you should receive the same funding. £1,000 doesn’t go that far, but it would help a bit. The ECB has control of how we play our weekend cricket. The argument made is that we need a structured progression throughout our leagues towards the aim of producing county players through to English Test players. However, county cricket is littered with Kolpak and overseas players; it’s not as bad as professional football, but it’s getting that way, and now club cricket is going the same way.
How many players, for example, playing ECB premier division cricket actually pay a club subscription and or match fee? Maybe it’s worse down south, because not many down here do. Thankfully, in my opinion, our club does not go down that route. We couldn’t
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